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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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